Create student-generated reusable lessons. Teachers have students create a video explaining a skill. Upon submission, the teacher selects examples that can be used as teaching tools for other teachers or classes.
Use QR codes to share content or student work. The camera of an iPad provides quick access to a student's body of work.
Build quizzes with authentic visual cues. Students take pictures of science experiments then when building quizzes these photos can be used as visual cues.
Create videos for building school culture. Students create videos highlighting themes or school events. These can be shared on the school website or during announcements.
Record, annotate and explain class work. Students take images or videos of experiments, hands-on math tasks, ... any class work then record or annotate the work.
For STEM or science experiments Slo-Mo (slow motion) or Time-Lapse videos work wonders.
Record instruction and student work live with camera and display on a projection screen.
Spelling Test, Oral Reading, and Spotlighting Students Learn More
Story Problems, Journals, and Storytelling
Siri For Research-
Students ask a lot of questions. Why not let them ask Siri? Siri can be a great hands free resource and all you need to do is have students click and hold the open button and verbally ask a question. Teach students the power of specific questions by asking Siri and working to narrow topics.
Examples:
Ask better questions. How long is the Panama Canal? Now try: What is the length of the Panama Canal?
My script calculator is a helpful tool when confirming math calculations. Students can hand write equations to be solved quickly. This calculator is easy to edit in a snap when changing variables.
Clock
Analog Clock, Instant Timer, and Stopwatch look for these tools in the Control Center
To access the control center swipe up from the bottom of the iPad.
Speak a Selection
Check to be sure the Speak selection is enabled under GENERAL>SPEECH
You may need to adjust the rate of speech as not to be too fast or slow for individual students.
You can now swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen, readers can now use the controls to pause or adjust settings
You can also have only a selection of text read to readers by highlighting any text and choosing Speak
Calendar
In a one iPad classroom the teacher could sync a calendar with center rotations and directions.
QR Code Reader
Students can access information quickly by using a QR code reader.
Easy Reading with Safari
Use the reading view to allow distraction free reading for students. Navigate to your webpage containing text.
From the address bar click the bars to the left
Adjust the size, font, and background color for the individual learner
Saving Websites as Tiles
For websites that are visited frequently, simply save them to the home screen or dock for easy access
To do this click the export arrow and choose Save to Home Screen
The website will then appear as a tile that can live on the home screen, dock, or a customized group.
This is great to save time and also works well as you begin to differentiate tasks on the iPads for student groups.
Math Journals- Allows students to explore deep math reasoning with apps like Number Frames, Number Line, Number Pieces. Students have the flexibility to model math with equations, five to 100 frames, counters, and annotations.
Reading for Fluency with HMH Readers- Students can read from a selection of fiction or non-fiction leveled readers. As they read, they can choose to hear text read aloud, bookmark pages, and record their own voice reading the text. Students could also use these stories to explain authors point of view, main idea, or to point out text evidence. To access the full selection of leveled readers, ask your tech coach for your grade level code. Click for HMH Reader Directions
Retelling with Collins Big Cat Books- Early readers will enjoy the Big Cat Collins Apps. These beautifully illustrated stories allow students to interact with text by reading alone, having the story read to them, or even reading aloud and recording the reader's voice. When having the story read, words are highlighted emphasizing left to right progression. The reader's attention is also drawn to the moving and often interactive illustrations on each page. After reading the story, students use the story creator to retell a scene or multiple scenes by selecting the setting, characters, and objects. Finally, text and voice can be recorded to allow the student to retell the story.This serves as a wonderful performance based task for early readers.
Oak Ridge, the secret city
PaperPort Notes is an example digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone.
Literacy Circles with a Technology Twist- Students are reading a story in the basal while also holding an online discussion using Today's Meet paired with a QR code reader linked to video clips to expand text.
Getting Up Close with your iPad in History- Allow students to view and analyze images and primary source documents like never before. An iPad gives you an instant magnifier with any image or document. Just expand to take a closer look. www.americainclass.org, Library of Congress, and The National Archives:DocsTeach
Augmented Reality Sky View- Allow students to experience constellations directly from the ipad. Students can practice identifying objects in the sky using the SkyView Free app.
Presenting Interactive Content with NearPod-
Teachers and students can take presentations from good to great by adding:
Educreations- Allows students and teachers to record and annotate learning to be viewed by others. Simply upload to a free account and supply your audience with the class code. Not only can teachers publish examples and instruction, but students can turn in assignments to the teacher using high tech white board.
Students can search web images, annotate, and record over them.
Presenting Learning with Shadow Puppets - In a fifth grade class, students work to present knowledge of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments by creating a Shadow Puppet or a storytelling video. The teacher modified the amendments to make them more understandable to students by using Rewordify. Then students analyzed and noted key features of each amendment and created an end product demonstrating mastery.Standard 5.40 analyze goals and achievements of the Progressive Era
.
Creating Interactive books with Book Writer - students can create an e-book. An easy to use drag and drop interface allows children of all ages to publish an electronic book on Dropbox, Google Drive, Itunes, iBooks, and even as a PDF.
add pictures, text, voice recordings, songs, and videos on the page
use the camera to take pictures or videos and add them right on to the book
Bringing Historical Figures to Life- Students can research a historical figure and then compose dialog for the figure. Simply allow students to save the picture on the iPad then open ChatterPix and add voice and text to the historical figure.
Advertise Your Ideas - Students can create an original product and compose a script for an advertisement that can be practiced for fluency then recorded with ChatterPix, then finally posted for others to like or to add comments for future improvements. This is how one teacher publishes students work on her website.
items to your Nearpod presentation. Get real time detailed reporting
Plickers
Simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
Questions can be linked to standards.
Plickers can be used in combination with other media or materials.
Socrative
Real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization
Question types include:
text (short answer)
multiple choice
exit ticket
Results:
display live
spreadsheet
Quick Questions require no advance preparation.
multiple choice
true or false
short answer
class voting/ranking
Quizzes can be shared. Quizzes can be played as Space Race game in teams. Questions can be tagged with current standards.
Kahoot
Online quizzes, surveys and discussions in a competitive game-based environment.
Participants answer questions to earn points and receive instant feedback.
Activity types include:
quiz (multiple choice questions)
discussion (1 quick question)
survey
Question types include:
multiple choice
text
Results
(Not an app--available through the internet browser on the iPad)
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Let's take some of the great tools we have learned today and make them work together. Apps can be even more powerful when used together or "smashed". In the Powerpoint below, see how one teacher began with a standard in mind, created a clear target, and used two or more apps to allow students to accomplished a given task. These task cards also serve as a great management tool to easily direct students to apps and keep focus on a specific task. More about "App Smashing" or the more teacher-friendly term, "Layering Apps", follow the video at this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMWa2nVoMw&feature=em-subs_digest , or see the embedded YouTube video below.
I can
How do you use iPads?
Everyday Tools
Examples:
More Ideas for Using Siri: 20 Ways Siri May Forever Change Education
To access the control center swipe up from the bottom of the iPad.
You can now swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen, readers can now use the controls to pause or adjust settings
You can also have only a selection of text read to readers by highlighting any text and choosing Speak
The website your using doesn't have a QR code of its own? No worries. Use an online QR code website like WebQr.com.
Try this:
- Exploring Symmetry Learn More
- Digital Assessment with PaperSlide Video Learn More
- Science Project Learn More
Additional Photo AppsPhoto Booth Like Apps
Use the reading view to allow distraction free reading for students. Navigate to your webpage containing text.
From the address bar click the bars to the left
Adjust the size, font, and background color for the individual learner
Saving Websites as Tiles
For websites that are visited frequently, simply save them to the home screen or dock for easy access
To do this click the export arrow and choose Save to Home Screen
The website will then appear as a tile that can live on the home screen, dock, or a customized group.
This is great to save time and also works well as you begin to differentiate tasks on the iPads for student groups.
Back to Class Targets
Content Tools & Apps
Math Journals- Allows students to explore deep math reasoning with apps like Number Frames, Number Line, Number Pieces. Students have the flexibility to model math with equations, five to 100 frames, counters, and annotations.
Reading for Fluency with HMH Readers- Students can read from a selection of fiction or non-fiction leveled readers. As they read, they can choose to hear text read aloud, bookmark pages, and record their own voice reading the text. Students could also use these stories to explain authors point of view, main idea, or to point out text evidence. To access the full selection of leveled readers, ask your tech coach for your grade level code.
Click for HMH Reader Directions
Retelling with Collins Big Cat Books- Early readers will enjoy the Big Cat Collins Apps. These beautifully illustrated stories allow students to interact with text by reading alone, having the story read to them, or even reading aloud and recording the reader's voice. When having the story read, words are highlighted emphasizing left to right progression. The reader's attention is also drawn to the moving and often interactive illustrations on each page. After reading the story, students use the story creator to retell a scene or multiple scenes by selecting the setting, characters, and objects. Finally, text and voice can be recorded to allow the student to retell the story.This serves as a wonderful performance based task for early readers.
Close Reading-
Oak Ridge, the secret city
PaperPort Notes is an example digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone.
Literacy Circles with a Technology Twist- Students are reading a story in the basal while also holding an online discussion using Today's Meet paired with a QR code reader linked to video clips to expand text.
Getting Up Close with your iPad in History- Allow students to view and analyze images and primary source documents like never before. An iPad gives you an instant magnifier with any image or document. Just expand to take a closer look. www.americainclass.org, Library of Congress, and The National Archives:DocsTeach
Newspaper Account of the First Lunar Landing
Image of Jesse Owens at Berlin Olympics
Educreations and Skitch
Augmented Reality Sky View- Allow students to experience constellations directly from the ipad. Students can practice identifying objects in the sky using the SkyView Free app.
Presenting Interactive Content with NearPod-
Teachers and students can take presentations from good to great by adding:
Join instructor for live demonstration.
Free reading resource for students ages 12 and under. Educator accounts are free. For home use app must be purchased.
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Creation Tools
Educreations- Allows students and teachers to record and annotate learning to be viewed by others. Simply upload to a free account and supply your audience with the class code. Not only can teachers publish examples and instruction, but students can turn in assignments to the teacher using high tech white board.Students can search web images, annotate, and record over them.
Students can take a picture of their work examples and pair them with text.
Students can do the teaching.
Turn Students Into The Teacher
Educreations Directions and Examples
Presenting Learning with Shadow Puppets - In a fifth grade class, students work to present knowledge of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments by creating a Shadow Puppet or a storytelling video. The teacher modified the amendments to make them more understandable to students by using Rewordify. Then students analyzed and noted key features of each amendment and created an end product demonstrating mastery.Standard 5.40 analyze goals and achievements of the Progressive Era
.
- add pictures, text, voice recordings, songs, and videos on the page
- use the camera to take pictures or videos and add them right on to the book
- draw image and edit image using the pen tool
- play as a slideshow
Additional Book Creator AppsBringing Historical Figures to Life- Students can research a historical figure and then compose dialog for the figure. Simply allow students to save the picture on the iPad then open ChatterPix and add voice and text to the historical figure.
Advertise Your Ideas - Students can create an original product and compose a script for an advertisement that can be practiced for fluency then recorded with ChatterPix, then finally posted for others to like or to add comments for future improvements. This is how one teacher publishes students work on her website.
See more Chatter Pix Ideas Here
Posted Teacher Examples - Elem.
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Productivity and Organizational Tools
Engaging Student Response Tools
- open-ended question
- poll
- quiz
- draw it
- fill in the blank
items to your Nearpod presentation. Get real time detailed reportingQuestions can be linked to standards.
Plickers can be used in combination with other media or materials.
Question types include:
- text (short answer)
- multiple choice
- exit ticket
Results:- display live
- spreadsheet
Quick Questions require no advance preparation.- multiple choice
- true or false
- short answer
- class voting/ranking
Quizzes can be shared. Quizzes can be played as Space Race game in teams. Questions can be tagged with current standards.Participants answer questions to earn points and receive instant feedback.
Activity types include:
- quiz (multiple choice questions)
- discussion (1 quick question)
- survey
Question types include:- multiple choice
- text
Results(Not an app--available through the internet browser on the iPad)
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Get Busy App Smashing
Let's take some of the great tools we have learned today and make them work together. Apps can be even more powerful when used together or "smashed". In the Powerpoint below, see how one teacher began with a standard in mind, created a clear target, and used two or more apps to allow students to accomplished a given task. These task cards also serve as a great management tool to easily direct students to apps and keep focus on a specific task. More about "App Smashing" or the more teacher-friendly term, "Layering Apps", follow the video at this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMWa2nVoMw&feature=em-subs_digest , or see the embedded YouTube video below.
8 Common IPad Mistakes
Visit the App Store for Teachers- Navigate to iTunes then filter by educators
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